Sequential Benchmarks 1997

We ask you to post any comments and suggestions about the contents of this directory using our PosterNotes . We solicit contributions of additional circuit descriptions that we may use to generate equivalence mutant classes.

We plan to upgrade the directory ML-SEQ to be structured similarly as the adjacent directory ML-COMB. The directory will contain 100 sequential mutant circuits in each equivalence class. It is scheduled for release by mid-April 1997. We presently archive only the reference circuits.

The reference circuits shown in table below have been chosen in order of increasing complexity.

Ckt_name     Nmb_of_combinational_nodes   Nmb_of_FFs
--------     --------------------------   ----------
S27                        9                    3
S420.1                   165                   16
S1423                    508                   74
mm30a                   1404                   90
dsip                    2541                  224
bigkey                  4777                  224
avq                    16669                 3705

Unless noted otherwise, the sequential REFERENCE circuits in this directory are based on circuits described in User Guide 1991-IWLS-UG-Saeyang. See this document for more details about data formats. Note that the reference circuits themselves have been preprocessed into a logically equivalent form before the generation of the respective circuit mutants.

The reference circuit avq in THIS DIRECTORY is a new addition to the benchmark set. More details about its construction are available in 1997-TR@CBL-01-Ghosh, 1997-ISPD-Kapur.

Directory Organization:
The circuits are simply listed in a compressed format. These will be expanded into respective directories of circuit mutants later.

For further information contact:
ghosh@cbl.ncsu.edu or kapur@cbl.ncsu.edu